Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Hi all, just got my tree planted by the Million Trees city project. Does anyone know if the city also provides guards, or if that’s the owner’s obligation? Also, if anyone has any recommendations, I’d ...

Big Reuse, a Gowanus-based environmental nonprofit, and Councilmember Lincoln Restler (D-33) have launched a do-it-yourself tree guard project. The project is one of many community and city ...

Help apples, pears, and other fruit trees survive the cold with these winterizing tips. Remove leaves, windfall fruit, and weeds around trees, and mulch for soil insulation. Protect trees with tree ...

In a big city, trees, like people, like their space. In a new study, researchers at Columbia University found that street trees protected by guards that stopped passersby from trampling the ...

If you’re one of those admirable people to have made a street guard to protect your street tree, please make sure that you do not raise the soil above ground level in the process. The soil needs to ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A section of Targee Street in Stapleton is looking a little spiffier thanks to a group of local teens. The young Staten Islanders were charged with creating tree guards through a ...